A group of prominent rabbis organized by the group Jewish
Funds for Justice -- "including the heads of the Reform,
Conservative and Reconstructionist movements as well as prominent
Orthodox rabbis" -- have taken out a full page ad in today's
Wall Street Journal to protest Glenn
Beck.

They are asking Rupert Murdoch, owner of the WSJ
as well as Fox News, to "sanction" Beck.

Specifically, they are responding to his days-long tirade last
fall against George Soros and his "repeated
perversion of the memory of the Holocaust."

They also want an apology from Fox News head Roger
Ailes who dismissed complaints at the time as coming
from “left-wing rabbis who basically don’t think that anybody can
ever use the word ‘Holocaust’ on the air.”

Here's what the letter reads in part:

“In the charged political climate in the current civic debate,
much is tolerated, and much is ignored or dismissed. But you
diminish the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when you use it
to discredit any individual or organization you disagree with.
That is what Fox News has done in recent weeks, and it is not
only ‘left-wing rabbis’ who think so.”

Also: The rabbis’ note Mr. Beck has made “literally hundreds of
on-air references to the Holocaust and Nazis when characterizing
people with whom [Beck] disagree[s].” Beck
routinely compares American leaders to Nazis, has likened his
crusade against progressives to that of “Israeli Nazi
Hunters,” and has said that putting the “common good” first
leads to “death camps.”

I'm not sure he "routinely" does it, but he certainly does it
more than anyone else on television.

One suspects, if anything, they are likely to get an
apology before they get any sort of 'sanction.' Meanwhile,
Fox News is likely to get is better ratings when Glenn Beck
spends the next few days railing against this letter on his
television and radio shows.